Best Song: Doja Cat ft SZA - Kiss Me More
This is a guilty pleasure really. I remember hearing this for the first time and thinking what the fuck is this, but found myself being drawn in at the same time. I guess that's the point in mainstream music really, it's crap but somehow appeals to the masses.
Worst Song: Niall Horan Ft Anne Marie - Our Song
There have been many naff male/female duets over the years. That concept hit a new low when Peter Andre collaborated with Katie Price on "A Whole New World", but I think that's now been beaten. This has to be one of the blandest records ever written, it's just dreadful.
Top 40 Review
When I first started this series of posts, this Top 40 was yet to exist. My original inspiration was to test whether the charts had improved in recent times and whether the historic charts were as good as remembered.
I'd been keeping track of how many rap records had been in the Top 40 and by this point it was still the leading genre by some distance albeit not to the extent of 2020. However, its the EDM that's sticking around and is the leading genre in this Top 40.
David Guetta is back with 3 records and Calvin Harris is back with 1. If you'd have told me those records were made in 2009 I'd believe you. It's the same generic EDM crap they'd been pumping out for that long.
Elsewhere in the EDM world it gets worse if anything. We have an EDM version of "Rasputin" by Majestic & Boney M and an EDM version of "Push The Feeling On" called "Friday" by Riton ft Nightcrawlers & Mufasa, both of which are unbelievably bad.
Elsewhere guitars are coming back, but the music is to rock what EDM is to dance. Eurovision winners Maneskin have 2 records in there. Will Smiths daughter Willow has teamed up with Travis from Blink 182 with an Avril Lavigne sounding record. The number one is from Olivia Rodrigo which is also similar and she has 2 other records that are more female Ed Sheeran like. A big fat zero for all of those.
There are 7 rap records in there and some get half marks but most get zero. A surprising half mark outside of rap goes to The Weeknd with "Save Your Tears".
When I first came up with the idea of these posts, the reason for the charts improvement were the demise of EDM and the rise of rap. Since then EDM has grown again and as a result we're back to terrible scores.
Score: 2.5
Table
Here's the final table then. It was almost a given that whatever year was top going into the 21st century was going to be top of the final table:
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